FinTech

Payments using facial recognition are growing in South Korea as the tech improves; South Korean fintech app Toss has scaled its “Facepay” service to 1M+ users (asia.nikkei.com)
24 days ago Korea Fintech Facial Recognition

Filings: Michael Saylor's Strategy has bought more than $3B in Bitcoin since January 5, marking its biggest two-week purchase since December 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Bitcoin

NYSE plans to use its tech that matches buyers and sellers, alongside blockchain networks, to facilitate real-time trading of tokenized securities in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago Blockchain

Bitcoin fell 3.6% to under $92K, ether fell ~5%, and solana fell 8.6%, wiping ~$100B from crypto's total value, after Trump proposed new 10% European tariffs (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago Trump Europe Bitcoin

More US States are Putting Bitcoin on Public Balance Sheets (yro.slashdot.org)
26 days ago Bitcoin

A look at Michael Saylor's Strategy, known for buying bitcoin via creative financing strategies, as its stock trades way below its peak amid the crypto downturn (www.nytimes.com)
27 days ago Bitcoin

Beaconcha.in: a record ~36M ethereum tokens, or 30% of ethereum's total supply, worth ~$119B, are now staked, as institutional investors grow their share (sherwood.news)
27 days ago Ethereum

Total global VC funding to fintech startups totaled $51.8B in 2025, up 27% YoY and above pre-pandemic totals, but much lower than 2021's peak of $141.6B (news.crunchbase.com)
29 days ago Fintech Startup

Blockchain-based lender Figure unveils the On-Chain Public Equity Network to issue, trade, and lend stocks natively on a blockchain, not as tokenized replicas (www.theblock.co)
30 days ago Blockchain Equity

Bitchat, a P2P messaging app launched by Jack Dorsey, has emerged as a key lifeline for people in Uganda and Iran facing government-imposed internet shutdowns (www.reuters.com)
30 days ago Iran P2P Uganda

Polygon buys crypto startups Coinme and Sequence for a total of $250M+, as it seeks to bolster its stablecoin and fintech infrastructure and compete with Stripe (fortune.com)
2026-1-14 Fintech Startup

Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-13 Fintech

Michael Saylor's Strategy bought 13,627 bitcoin for ~$1.25B between January 5 and 11, taking its total holdings to 687,410, and boosts its USD reserve to $2.25B (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-13 Bitcoin

Source: OnePay, the fintech firm behind Walmart's “super app”, recently bought back shares from employees at a price that values the startup at more than $4B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-10 Fintech Startup Walmart

Cambodia extradites Chen Zhi, the chair of online scam conglomerate Prince Group, to China; in October 2025, the US DOJ seized Chen's bitcoin worth nearly $12B (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 China Bitcoin Cambodia

New GoBruteforcer attack wave targets crypto, blockchain projects (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Blockchain

Cambodia extradites Chen Zhi, the chairman of online scam conglomerate Prince Group, to China; in October, the US DOJ seized $12B in bitcoin belonging to Chen (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 China Bitcoin Cambodia

Dutch fintech Bunq applies to become a US bank; the OCC conditionally approved national trust bank charters for several crypto firms in 2025, including Circle (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Fintech Netherlands

African fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised $17.5M since 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-5 Fintech Startup Africa Nigeria

Mumbai-based Knight Fintech, which builds core infrastructure connecting banks, lenders, platforms, and borrowers, raised $23.6M led by Accel (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-1-3 Fintech

Cryptocurrency theft attacks traced to 2022 LastPass breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3 Cryptocurrency

The FBI says fraudsters bilked Americans out of $333.5M via bitcoin ATM scams from January through November 2025, up from roughly $250M in 2024 (abcnews.go.com)
2026-1-1 U.S. Bitcoin FBI

Trump Media, owner of Truth Social, plans to distribute a new token to shareholders with partner Crypto.com, expected to operate on the Cronos blockchain (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-1 Blockchain Trump

Fake GrubHub emails promise tenfold return on sent cryptocurrency (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-27 Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Miners' Pivot To AI Has Lifted Bitcoin-Mining ETF By About 90% This Year (slashdot.org)
2025-12-26 Bitcoin ETF AI

Bitcoin miners retooling data centers for AI have boosted their stocks; the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF is up about 90% YTD even as bitcoin has slumped (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-24 Bitcoin ETF AI

Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives (www.ft.com)
2025-12-20 Bitcoin

Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-18 Bitcoin AI

Wall Street clearinghouse DTCC selects the Canton Network blockchain as a real-world asset tokenization partner after receiving a No-Action Letter from the SEC (www.coindesk.com)
2025-12-18 Blockchain Wall Street Asset

Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust the fintech's Chair Gary Hoffman after the surprise departure of CEO TS Anil (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17 Fintech

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